University of Pretoria

The University of Pretoria is a public research university with multiple campuses in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative and de facto capital. The university began as the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg-based Transvaal University College in 1908, and it is the fourth South African institution to be granted university status in continuous operation. The institution has expanded from 32 pupils in a single late Victorian house to almost 53,000 students in 2019. On a total of 1,190 hectares, the university was developed on seven outlying campuses.

There are nine faculties and a business school within the university. The University of Pretoria Faculty of Veterinary Science, founded in 1920, is Africa's second-oldest veterinary school and South Africa's only veterinary school. The university's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has continuously been regarded as the top business school in Africa for executive education, as well as being listed in the top 50 in the world. The GIBS Executive MBA was ranked first in Africa and 60th in the world by the Financial Times in 2012. Today, this university still is one of the best university in South Africa.

According to the Department of Education's accreditation criterion, the university has produced more research outputs every year since 1997 than any other institution of higher learning in South Africa. In 2008, the institution awarded 15.8% of all master's and doctoral degrees in South Africa, the country's highest ratio. According to the DHET report released in March 2019, UP has the highest percentage (10.93%) of all South African institutions' total research output units in 2017. According to the 2019 Web of Science Index, fifty-three UP researchers are in the top 1%.

Established: 4 March 1908

Website: up.ac.za